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RUPSY777
Helper II
Helper II

In power bi - the first column is getting repeated value then count +1

hi All,

My power bi dataset has a column where repeated value occurs and each time the same value will occur the count should get increased by 1 ( if Column A=SAME VALUE AS PREIOUS ROWS THEN COUNT= COUNT+1 ELSE COUNT)- how to get the count column in custom query or dax?

 

  
Column aCount
tata1
mdc1
tata2
tata3
mdc2
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AnkitBI
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi @RUPSY777 

 

You can do directly in PQ as beow.

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WKkksSVSK1YlWyk1JBtNwAVSZWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Column a" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column a", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Column a"}, {{"AllRows", each Table.AddIndexColumn(_,"Count",1,1), type table [Column a=text,Count = number]}}),
    #"Expanded AllRows" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "AllRows", {"Count"}, {"Count"})
in
    #"Expanded AllRows"

 

Thanks
Ankit Jain
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AnkitBI
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

Hi @RUPSY777 

 

You can do directly in PQ as beow.

 

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WKkksSVSK1YlWyk1JBtNwAVSZWAA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [#"Column a" = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column a", type text}}),
    #"Grouped Rows" = Table.Group(#"Changed Type", {"Column a"}, {{"AllRows", each Table.AddIndexColumn(_,"Count",1,1), type table [Column a=text,Count = number]}}),
    #"Expanded AllRows" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Grouped Rows", "AllRows", {"Count"}, {"Count"})
in
    #"Expanded AllRows"

 

Thanks
Ankit Jain
Do Mark it as solution if the response resolved your problem. Do Kudo the response if it seems good and helpful.

HotChilli
Super User
Super User

If you add an index column in Power Query (from 1).

Then in Power Bi create a calculated column with this DAX

RunningCount = VAR _value = Table[Column a]
                VAR _index = Table[Index]
            
RETURN
    CALCULATE(COUNT(Table[Column a]), 
        FILTER(Table,
            Table[Column a] = _value &&
            Table[Index] <= _index))

You will substitute in your table and column names.

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